The Froth

Bacteria

7. April 2008

My son has been sick on and off for almost two months now. At first we thought it was the flu but two weeks later it came back, after a basketball session and there were no other symptoms, just high fever and tiredness. He’d wake up in the morning and tell me "I am so [...]

You would squeeze it but would it squeak?

13. May 2007

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Having to make a class presentation on â€œTV in my houseâ€, my son, whose English is not that good yet, wrote on one corner of the big craft paper he used: â€œFavourite TV Show: SPONGE BOOBâ€.

I don’t hear voices yet

5. February 2007

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This Monday morning, I woke my son up, gave him his breakfast, helped him dress and prepared his snacks for school. Then we went downstairs to wait for the school bus. A feeling of impending doom I had been trying to suppress overwhelmed me so five minutes before the bus arrived I told him to [...]

When the stork met the birds and bees

22. January 2007

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The dreaded day I had to let my son know about the birds and bees came. I know he knows a few things, and he certainly knows the scientific part: the sperm fertilizes the egg. But how does the sperm reach the egg? That, he didnâ€™t know â€“as far as I was concerned. So I [...]

Control: no

10. October 2006

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All the parents whose kids are antisocial, abusive, violent and in desperate need of counseling, and who instead of offering that counseling, are forever holding the TV remote control, even to the extent where they use it to point to things in the room (”fetch my slippers, will you?”), should get the hell out of [...]

School sucks (still)

8. September 2006

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what my son is leaving behind My son waived the privilege of choosing his backpack this year for the greater pleasure of one more vacation day. He is coming back on Sunday afternoon and starts school on Monday. I thought I had better at least ask him about the backpack’s colour so as to avoid drama [...]

The constant blogger

28. July 2006

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Tomorrow I am going to meet a friend I made on Blogger. She is coming for dinner. I am very happy. I can’t tell you how happy. Also, I am so tired today. I was carrying a table back and forth, all day because the people at the store couldn’t find its code [...]